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What type of muscle bends joint?

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Updated: 12/18/2022

Flexor

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What type of muscle bends a joint.?

Flexor


What type for muscle bends a joint?

The type of muscle that bends a joint is called a flexor muscle. Flexor muscles contract to decrease the angle between two bones at a joint, facilitating movements like bending the elbow or knee. These muscles work in opposition to extensor muscles, which increase the angle at a joint.


What joint bends the arm?

The joint between the humerus and the ulna bends the elbow.


What muscle bends your knee?

The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.


What type of joint strengthens a muscle?

bicept


How do muscles work antagonistically?

They're referring to opposite motions, if a muscle bends a joint - it's antagonist straightens it out.


What type of muscle straightens a joint?

extensor


What is the type of muscle contraction that produces movement in a joint and allows the muscle to shorten?

By tensing.


What contracts to extends or straighten the limb at the joint?

This type of muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint


Muscle that bends body?

Spine. Bone, not muscle.


A muscle that bends part of your body is called?

A flexor muscle.


the type of muscle wich can only be found in the heart?

gliding joint

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